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"I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I fin...
07/19/2025

"I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I ever lived them. My little son grew up in the white man's school. He can read books, and he owns cattle and has a farm. He is a leader among our Hidatsa people, helping teach them to follow the white man's road.
He is kind to me. We no longer live in an earth lodge, but in a house with chimneys, and my son's wife cooks by a stove.
But for me, I cannot forget our old ways.
Often in summer I rise at daybreak and steal out to the corn fields, and as I hoe the corn I sing to it, as we did when I was young. No one cares for our corn songs now.
Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I see again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of the warriors, and the laughter of little children of old.
It is but an old woman's dream. Then I see but shadows and hear only the roar of the river, and tears come into my eyes. Our Indian life, I know, is gone forever."
Waheenee - Hidatsa (North Dakota)
Credit: Remembering the Old West

THE NEXT TIME YOU BELITTLESOMEONE FOR NOT BEING WHITEOR NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH,PERHAPS YOU SHOULD REMEMBERWHAT A REAL AMER...
07/19/2025

THE NEXT TIME YOU BELITTLE
SOMEONE FOR NOT BEING WHITE
OR NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH,
PERHAPS YOU SHOULD REMEMBER
WHAT A REAL AMERICAN LOOKS LIKE.

Whispers Between Worlds👉Get this tee here: https://nativespirit79.com/native2606Listen—the wind is not just wind,it carr...
07/18/2025

Whispers Between Worlds
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Listen—
the wind is not just wind,
it carries the breath of old ones,
telling stories to the trees
that bend to hear.

Wait—
the silence is not empty,
it holds the footsteps
of all who came before,
and the questions they left behind.

Feel—
the drum within your chest
beats the same rhythm
as the sky before dawn,
when the spirits still walk.

Walk gently.
The world speaks
in ways
only the still-hearted
can understand.

🪶 **Native Americans – The First People of America**Native Americans are the original people of North and South America,...
07/18/2025

🪶 **Native Americans – The First People of America**
Native Americans are the original people of North and South America, long before any outsiders arrived. In what is now the United States, they belong to many unique tribes and cultures — some still live today as proud, independent nations.
Most experts believe Native Americans came from Asia over 13,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge during the Ice Age. Some even say they arrived 40,000 years ago! Over time, these early people spread across the land, creating hundreds of different cultures.
The word “Indian” came from Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached India. But even before him, Norse explorers had reached North America around 500 years earlier. Many Native tribes believe they’ve always lived here, as told through their creation stories.
When Europeans arrived in the 1400s, over **50 million people** already lived in the Americas — including about **10 million** in the area that is now the U.S. What followed were years of change, struggle, and survival.
Today, Native Americans make up about **1.5% of the U.S. population**, proudly keeping their traditions, music, stories, and ceremonies alive.

This is what survival looks like.It’s in the way our children plant with care, sing with pride, and carry the teachings ...
07/18/2025

This is what survival looks like.
It’s in the way our children plant with care, sing with pride, and carry the teachings that were once forbidden. It’s in every syllable of our languages that still live, every drumbeat that echoes through the generations, every braid that defies silence.
We don’t just remember — we rebuild.
We don’t just survive — we rise.
Our strength was never in their systems.
It was in our stories, our ceremonies, our love for one another.
And that strength — passed down from those who endured the darkest chapters — is alive in us today.
We are still here.
We’ve always been here.
And we carry the light forward.
—Kanipawit Maskwa
John Gonzalez
Standing Bear Network

The Path the Sky Wept For👉Get this tee here: https://nativespirit79.com/native07They moved like shadowsacross the spine ...
07/17/2025

The Path the Sky Wept For
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They moved like shadows
across the spine of the land,
with each footstep
a prayer swallowed by sorrow,
each breath
a song the wind refused to carry.

The elders held fire in their silence,
the children clutched dreams
that faded like smoke
in the morning light.

Even the river turned away,
unable to witness
the uprooting of roots
older than stone.

But still—
the stars remembered their names,
the trees bowed in mourning,
and the Earth beneath them
never forgot
the pain it held.

We speak now,
not only for memory,
but for justice still waiting
at the edge of the trail.

We are here to heal, not harm.We are here to love, not hate.We are here to create, not destroy.
07/17/2025

We are here to heal, not harm.
We are here to love, not hate.
We are here to create, not destroy.

07/17/2025

A Hidatsa woman named Waheenee, born around 1839, made it her mission to ensure her tribe's ancient gardening techniques were never forgotten. 🌱
Between 1907 and 1918, she shared her people's deep knowledge of agriculture, cooking, and daily life with an ethnographer.
Her incredible wisdom was published in 1917 in a book called "Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden," creating a permanent record of a fading way of life.
She wasn't alone in this vital work of preservation.
Around the same time, an ethnologist named Frances Densmore traveled the United States with a wax cylinder phonograph.
Over several decades, she recorded over 2,000 songs from various tribes, preserving their musical heritage for all time. đź“–
Meanwhile, in Connecticut, a Mohegan woman named Gladys Tantaquidgeon dedicated her life to documenting traditional medicine and ancient healing practices.
Her detailed work not only preserved Mohegan culture but was instrumental in helping her tribe achieve federal recognition in 1994.
These women understood the importance of their heritage and worked tirelessly to create a bridge for future generations to connect with their past.

The First Footprints👉Get this tee here: https://nativespirit79.com/native10Before fences split the plainsand maps carved...
07/16/2025

The First Footprints
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Before fences split the plains
and maps carved up the sky,
there were only footsteps—
soft as deer track,
sure as morning light.

The People walked not to take,
but to belong,
speaking with rivers,
learning from stones,
calling the land “relative,”
never “possession.”

Then came boots that knew no silence,
and words that claimed
what was never theirs to own.
They built with laws,
but forgot the songs.
They planted flags,
but never roots.

Now the wind remembers
who came first.
And the earth,
older than any paper name,
still knows the stories
told in the language
of smoke, bone,
and memory.

Because truth,
like the sun,
rises
whether you see it
or not.

These are the faces of the authentic North Americans, but very few people know about them. Known as Apaches, Sioux, Cher...
07/16/2025

These are the faces of the authentic North Americans, but very few people know about them. Known as Apaches, Sioux, Cherokees or Cheyennes, there were many other ethnic groups such as the Blackfeet, the Arapaho or the Navajos.
But this is unfortunately very little known in books or by historians…

The True Indigenous Peoples of America: Faces of Forgotten NationsThese are not relics of the past. These are the faces ...
07/16/2025

The True Indigenous Peoples of America: Faces of Forgotten Nations
These are not relics of the past. These are the faces of the first nations—the original stewards of this land. Long before borders were drawn or maps were named, they walked these rivers, hunted these plains, and told stories under these stars.
You may know the names: Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, Cheyenne. But there were—and still are—many more: the Blackfoot, the Arapaho, the Navajo, and dozens of others, each with their own languages, traditions, and ways of life passed down through generations.
Their stories have often been silenced. Their history rewritten. Their land taken. But still, they remain—resilient, proud, and rooted in spirit.
Indigenous history is not just something we read about. It’s alive. Breathing. Teaching us what it means to live with the land, not just on it.
This is not just their story. It’s America’s real story. And it deserves to be seen, heard, and remembered.

Voices of the Earth👉Get this tee here: https://nativespirit79.com/native8They came like thunder before the storm,Not to ...
07/15/2025

Voices of the Earth
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They came like thunder before the storm,
Not to conquer, but to warn.
With hearts of stone and eyes of flame,
They walked where no man seeks fame.

Each step was a prayer,
Each silence, a song.
They knew that power
Is not in ruling — but belonging.

The wind carried their truth,
The rivers spoke their names.
Not in books or marble halls,
But in cedar smoke and sacred flames.

The eagle watched, the wolf replied,
The stars remembered when they died.
Yet even now, the ground still sings —
Of warriors who were once kings.

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